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A recent Nielsen poll found that 87% of respondents are "interested in seeing more content featuring people from outside their identity group." To that end, a new study shows how the behind-the-scenes landscape is affecting content desired by audiences and advertisers alike. The Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity — a…

Call your designer, get your hair done, and don’t forget to swab your nostrils — it’s finally time to party as Oscar Week comes out of the pandemic. While there’s some of the old standards returning after a year’s dormancy during Covid, largely MIA this year are any studio- or streamer-sponsored parties/dinners…

Women in Film and Google have set Kameishia Wooten and Robin J. Hayes (Choices), Patricia Seely and Alexandra Clayton (Please In Spanish), and Katarina Zhu (Silverlake Cleaners) as the fellows for the inaugural WIF Shorts Lab supported by Google. As part of the program, fellows will benefit not only from WIF’s years…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. ‘Tis the season … for handing out nominations (and yes, even some awards). This week we had long lists of nominees from Critics Choice, Indie Spirits, and even the Golden Globes despite their woes and lack of a televised show to really heat things…

The Black List and Women In Film (WIF) have announced the participants selected for their sixth annual episodic lab.  Out of a record 1,200 applicants, six pilots from eight writers have been chosen to participate in the professional development-focused lab which includes master classes, pitch coaching, mentoring, and…

Women In Film, Los Angeles has set Marlee Matlin, Siâ­­­­n Heder, Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Zendaya and Ashley Levinson as the recipients of its 2021 Crystal Award, recognizing outstanding artists whose advocacy has helped to expand the role of women within entertainment. Matlin and Heder will be honored for…

Irma Kalish, one of television’s first female producers whose writing and producing credits with her husband and writing partner include the Norman Lear series Maude, All in the Family and Good Times as well as My Favorite Martian, My Three Sons, Gilligan’s Island, I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show and Too Close…

Seriously, Disney, you’re not lookin’ so good. In the wake of the $319.8 billion entertainment media conglom calling Scarlett Johansson’s breach of contract Black Widow suit a “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the Covid-19 pandemic” and outing her base salary of $20M on the Marvel…

Women In Film Los Angeles has selected the first class of participants for its new Emerging Producers Program, which is designed to provide women and non-binary people access to master classes, mentorship and advising early in their producing careers. Participants looking to build careers across various producing…

Women in Film Los Angeles has a half-dozen new board members. New to the board are Niija Kuykendall, EVP Production at Warner Bros Pictures; Michelle Lee, Director of Domestic Programming at AppleTV+; film producer Monica Levinson Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Chris Nee, creator and EP of Doc McStuffins; Shivani Rawat…

For the second year running, Women in Film has released its awards-season ballot recognizing “all of the women whose work behind the camera made the film landscape of 2020 possible.” The inaugural version of the ballot was released in 2019 just as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association unveiled its Golden Globe…

The Black List and WIF (Women In Film, Los Angeles) have unveiled the participants who have won spots in their fifth annual Episodic Lab as well as the annual Feature Lab. The Episodic Lab provides mentorship and career opportunities to six rising women television writers over the course of a year. The Lab runs twice…